When the unnameable uncanny tears through reality's steel defenses, the civilization the world takes pride in is as fragile as a cicada's wing in the face of fear. In this world of frequent supernatural incidents and dangers lurking everywhere, escape is the only way ordinary people can survive.
Jiang Yue Bai is a senior high school student who seems ordinary on the surface, but a deadly curse lies dormant within him. A dark red mark on the back of his hand has been there since birth, throbbing like a living thing with every heartbeat and bringing an uncontrollable thirst for blood. With normal life at school reduced to a distant hope, and his bloodthirsty instincts surging like a tide to drown out his reason, how can he hold on to the last of his humanity as he teeters on the brink of losing control, without official protection or any method of cultivation?
When the strings of reason finally snap, will he fall into the abyss and become a monster, or be reborn by crushing the uncanny beneath his feet?
